Cast: Sidney Poitier

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Sidney Poitier · Katharine Houghton

Plot Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the...

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Sidney Poitier · Rod Steiger · Warren Oates · Lee Grant

Plot When a prominent local businessman is found murdered in the tiny southern town of Sparta, Mississippi, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) gets picked up at the train station as a potential...

Direction Reginald Hudlin

Cast Sidney Poitier · Denzel Washington · Halle Berry · Spike Lee

Plot From producer Oprah Winfrey and directed by Reginald Hudlin, this revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier and his legacy as an iconic actor, filmmaker and activist at the center...

Direction Guy Green

Cast Elizabeth Hartman · Sidney Poitier · Shelley Winters · Wallace Ford

Plot A young blind woman, living with her prostitute mother and sheltered inside most of her life, meets a black man, who, resisting family pressures, falls in love with her, puts...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Walter Brennan · Brandon De Wilde · William Hopper · Phil Harris

Plot An old man and a young boy who live in the Georgia swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Tony Curtis · Sidney Poitier · Theodore Bikel · Charles McGraw

Plot This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Glenn Ford · Sidney Poitier · Anne Francis · Vic Morrow

Plot Richard Dadier earns a teaching assignment at a tough high school, where the teenagers make the rules and the staff meekly accept the fact that they've lost control. When Dadier...

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast Sidney Poitier · Claudia McNeil · Ruby Dee · Diana Sands

Plot Walter Lee Younger (Sidney Poitier) is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an...

Direction George Stevens Jr.

Cast Sidney Poitier · Burt Lancaster · Richard Kiley · Cleavon Little

Plot This film follows the true story of the NAACP court court challenge of racial school segregation in the Brown vs. Board of Education. This was the struggle would destroy the...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Richard Widmark · Sidney Poitier · Linda Darnell · Stephen McNally

Plot The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident...

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast John Cassavetes · Sidney Poitier · Jack Warden · Kathleen Maguire

Plot Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann (John Cassavetes), with a mysterious past, and Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier), an easy-going freight car loader who's growing friendship is threatened by Charles...

Direction James Clavell

Cast Sidney Poitier · Christian Roberts · Judy Geeson · Suzy Kendall

Plot Ideological changes in post-Civil Rights movement America were at the heart of legendary African-American actor Sidney Poitier's films in the late 1960s. One such film is this powerful drama, which...

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Sidney Poitier · Diahann Carroll

Plot Two jazz musicians deal with romantic problems in Paris. Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate American jazzmen working in a Left Bank nightclub in Paris. Ram is there...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Sidney Poitier · Dorothy Dandridge · Sammy Davis Jr. · Pearl Bailey

Plot In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break...

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Clark Gable · Yvonne De Carlo · Sidney Poitier · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Plot Based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren, this Southern potboiler stars Yvonne DeCarlo as Amantha Starr, the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. When her father unexpectedly dies,...

Direction James B. Harris

Cast Richard Widmark · Sidney Poitier · James MacArthur · Martin Balsam

Plot An American news writer assigned to interview the captain of the destroyer USS Bedford bears witness to a stunning game of cat and mouse in the frigid waters of the...

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Sidney Poitier · Lilia Skala · Lisa Mann · Isa Crino

Plot Sidney Poitier--who would later star in such unforgettable films as TO SIR, WITH LOVE; GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER and IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT--won an Academy Award for...

Direction Hubert Cornfield

Cast Sidney Poitier · Bobby Darin · Peter Falk · Carl Benton Reid

Plot An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies.

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Sidney Poitier · Anne Bancroft · Telly Savalas · Steven Hill

Plot Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs...

Direction Phil Alden Robinson

Cast Robert Redford · Mary McDonnell · Sidney Poitier · Ben Kingsley

Plot Two politically-minded whizkids pull off a daring computer caper in the Sixties, but, by a serendipitous twist of fate, only one of them gets caught. Twenty years later, the lucky...